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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
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antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:
> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
[...]
>> Not always practical.  A good example is the type size_t.  If a
>> function takes an argument of type size_t, then the symbol size_t
>> should be defined, no matter which header the function is being
>> declared in.
>
> Why?  One can use a type without a name for such type.

Convenience and existing practice.  Sure, an implementation of
<string.h> could provide a declaration of memcpy() without making
size_t visible, but what would be the point?

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */